Senegal
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Oolu, Senegal’s Solar Pay-As-You-Go Distributor, Raises $8.5M To Expand Energy Access In West Africa
Oolu, a solar distributor in West Africa, has closed a $8.5 million Series B investment round led by independent renewable energy…
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Startups Within The West African Economic And Monetary Union Have New $350k Up For Grabs
Startups in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMO) space have the opportunity to share a jackpot of FCFA…
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Nigerian Autochek Startup, Cheki, Raises $3.4m Seed For Its Platform
Nigerian car platform Autochek is starting life with a silver spoon. In September, a month before it was officially launched,…
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Why Only 14 West African Startups Raised $10m+ From 2010-2020
Analysts have been worried at the dearth of the birth of Unicorns in Africa since after the emergence of Jumia, and to some extent, InterSwitch,…
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5 Nigerian Startups Selected To Join 7 Others At The Africa Tech Summit Connects (ATS)
Five Nigerian firms have been shortlisted among the 12 African startups to pitch live at this month’s digital Africa Tech…
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Senegal’s First Major Gas Pipeline Gets US Government’s Funding
As part of the United States government’s efforts to support Africa’s economic growth through its Power Africa and Prosper Africa Initiatives, as…
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Afrofuturistic AKON CITY Underway In Senegal
Business Development in Africa Akon City, the futuristic pan-African city named after and envisioned by Senegalese-American Hip hop R&B recording…
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Senegalese Waste Recycling Startup E-cover SAS Raises $382k From WIC Capital
A Dakar-based waste recycling startup, E-cover SAS founded by a 25-year-old Senegalese Yaye Souadou Fall has secured 216 million CFA…
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Amazon Buys Startup Zoox Led By Senegalese Woman Aichatou Sar Evans For $1.2 billion
Amazon announced this week that it had bought Startup Zoox led by Senegalese Aichatou Sar Evans for $ 1.2 billion.…
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Get Funded Africa's South, East, West Event List
The GFA team compiled a list of must attend events happening between September- November. The majority of these events are…
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